INSTRUCTION TO PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIATS[1]

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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10. III. 1920

Inview of the catastrophically serious food position of
the workers of Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia, please
organise for today a meeting of representatives of theFood CommissariatCommissariat for AgricultureCommissariat for RailwaysChief Board of Water TransportCentral Committee of Textile IndustryCommissariat for Labour.

ComradeKiselyov, member of the Presidium of the
C.E.C., has agreed to convene the commission.

Thecommission’s terms of reference: to discuss the
proposals of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Party Committee
dated 6/111 and to work outemergencyrelief measures.
Report on fulfilment to be given to the C.P.C. by Saturday.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

[1]OnMarch 10, 1920, Lenin received V. S. Smirnov (Malkov)
and M. Z. Manuilsky, representatives of Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Gubernia, and A. S. Kiselyov, a member of the C.E.C. (in the past
a leading member of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Party organisation).
In accordance with a decision of the Gubernia Party Committee
of March 6, they asked Lenin to increase the supply of food to
Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia, to remove the intercepting
detachments in Yuriev-Polsky Uyezd, Vladimir Gubernia, to include
it in Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia and to provide
Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia at first open water with ships and barges
for transporting foodstuffs, seed, etc. On the same day the
Council of Defence discussed a report by A. B. Khalatov, a member
of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Food, concerning
the supply of food for Ivanovo-Voznesensk workers, and the
question of joining Yuriev-Polsky Uyezd to Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Gubernia. The Council of Defence resolved: “That the Chief Board
of Water Transport be instructed to take urgent measures to supply
the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Food Committee with tonnage
to the amount of 400,000 poods for urgent delivery of seed potatoes
from the Simbirsk, Kazan and Yaroslavl gubernias.” =

(Collected
Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51, p. 414.)